This memorial commemorates 1 Officer and 45 NCOs and men from the Cheshire Regiment, all of whom were killed in August and September 1914 and originally buried on the battlefields.

The La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial commemorates 3838 officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force who died in August, September and the early part of October 1914 and who have no known grave. Names are listed on the memorial by Regiments in order of precedence, under the title of each Regiment by rank, and under each rank alphabetically.

1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment

Officers, N.C.O.s & Men of the 1st Battalion, Commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial

All of the men named below were awarded the 1914 Star (with "clasps and roses"), the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

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Soldiers "Known Unto God"

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'A' Company:

Pt. 9879 Francis James. HEFFERAN

Pt. 7451 Joseph JONES (A.R.)

Pt. William MASSEY

'B' Company:

Pt. 6879 Joseph ARNOTT (A.R.)

Pt. 9060 William BYRNE

Pt. 10266 Samuel BURKHILL

Pt. 7511 Edward GOOCH (A.R.)

L/Cpl. 10271 Albert HOLT

Pt. 7833 William JONES

Pt. 7034 James McDERMOTT (A.R)

Pt. 7225 William

McDEAN (A.R.)

Pt. 7805 George T. MORRIS (A.R.)

Pt. 10083 Henry NOLAN (A.R.)

Pt. 6986 Thomas PEARSON (A.R.)

Pt 9991 William James

SMITH

Pt. 8720 James UNSWORTH

Pt 7768 Albert Stephen

WALKER (A.R.)

Pt. 7462 Jeremiah WILKINSON (A.R.)

'C' Company:

Pt. 6771 William BULLOCK (A.R.)

Pt. 8069 Gerald COPPOCK (A.R.)

Pt. 9156 Edward EATON

Pt. 7879 Arthur FROST (A.R.)

Pt. 9507 John HAGGERTY

Cpl. 6932 Thomas

HEWITT

L/Cpl. 4829 Edward HUGHES

Pt. 7926 Charles Alfred

KING (A.R.)

Pt. 6360 Arthur William Joseph WALDEN

'D' Company:

Pt. 7091 James BARNES (A.R.)

Pt. 7700 Alfred BELSHAW (A.R.)

Pt. 10088 John BYRNE

Pt. 8540 Sidney DALE (A.R.)

Pt. 7831 James DIXON (A.R.)

Pt. 8036 John FEENEY (A.R.)

Pt. 7597 Jacob GRIFFITHS (A.R.)

Pt. 7579 George William HOLBROOK (A.R.)

Pt. 7308 Harry HOUGHTON (A.R.)

Pt. 10089 William Henry HULL

Pt. 7769 William McCANN (A.R.)

Cpl. 9993 James W

ROBERTS

Sgt. 8891 Walter TAYLOR

Pt 7835 Sam

WHITELY (A.R.)

L.Cpl. 8097 John

WHITLOW (A.R.)

Pt. 7257 Samuel WHITTAKER (A.R.)

Pt 10135 George

WIGLEY

Pt. 10169 James Albert WILLIAMSON

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40 of the 1st Battalion commemorated here fell at Audregnies on 24 August. This includes Lt. K T Frost whose body was subsequently identified as being buried at Wiheries. Of the remaining 5, one fell at Le Cateau and four on the Aisne.

Audregnies Communal Cemetery contains the bodies of 14 soldiers of the 1st Battalion who were killed in action on 24th August 1914. Without doubt they are some of the 39 who are commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre who fell on that day.